Fang Xie looked up at the sky. Dark clouds blocked the moon. It seemed that the rain might come down before dawn. It was a good thing for both soldiers and people on the battlefield. The common people buried the seeds in the ground a while ago. If there was a heavy rain, the crops might emerge soon. The good climate in the northwest is too short, and the cold will attack again three months later. The soldiers can also rest, even if the Mongolian Yuan people are no longer urgent, they will not attack in the rain.
"Where are you going?"
Fang Xie asked duo Guduo.
"Plan?"
Duo Guduo was stunned and shook her head: "I didn't want to go before today. Before climbing the stone wall, I still wanted to open this door and go back to the grassland. Although the National Teacher repeatedly warned me not to go back, where can I go if I don't go back? You're right. I'm not happy in the Royal court. I do what I don't want to do. My conscience will be cut a hundred times and a thousand times every day Ten thousand times. "
"But where can we go now?"
Duo Guduo smiled bitterly: "if we go back to the grassland, yes, they will still be used as animals and tools, but at least they can live. If we leave the team and live in the Central Plains, will you Han people give them a way to live when they see Orc scouts?"
Fang Xie said calmly and seriously, "it turns out that you are also a pessimist. You always consider the worst side first... I will let you go, which is what I promised you. But where you go and how to live is not what I want to consider. The transaction is over."
Duo Guduo looked at Fang Jie in a daze, then stood up with the wall pile: "yes... The transaction is over."
"Chen Xiaoru"
Fang Xie said, "take some money and dry food for them, and..."
Fang Xie looked at the orc scouts and said, "take some boots."
He looked at duo Guduo and said, "where people live depends not on other people's faces or their attitudes, but on themselves. You say you are very painful and sad. In the past, you couldn't help yourself, but now you can choose by yourself. If I were you, I would cherish the chance to survive, then put on boots for them and teach them how to walk straight."
Duo Guduo didn't understand: "you killed so many orcs before and didn't have a trace of pity when you started. Why pity them now?"
Fang Xie said seriously, "because I know the situation all the time, and I don't pity them. There is no hatred between you and me that can never be dissolved. It's not the kind of person who can only be the enemy forever. Killing and letting you go are decisions made at two different times, not contradictory."
"You Han people are so complicated."
Duo Guduo sighed: "I was ready to die just now. If Kuo Ketai menglie were you, you would kill us after trading with me. I would never be merciful."
Fang Xie smiled: "everyone is different."
"Why are you guarding the Canyon?"
Duo Guduo asked, "you don't look like a cruel man."
"It has nothing to do with it."
Fang Xie waved his hand: "you go. If you choose to return to Mengyuan camp after you go down, I will shoot you with my bow."
"You're right."
Duo Guduo sighed: "you are really a person who can keep a clear picture of the situation all the time... We won't go back. Even if people can't accept our existence, the sky can still, the earth can still, just find a place where there is no one to live, at least it will be very calm."
Fang Xie nodded and didn't speak again.
"Thank you!"
Duo Guduo hugged his fist and thanked him like a Han man, and then asked the four Orc scouts to leave in Mongolian Yuan language. The four Orc scouts crawled behind him. Duo Guduo frowned and gave orders. They immediately stood up and walked. They didn't know, but they didn't adapt.
When they leave, they can't help looking back at Fang Xie. There seems to be some different meaning in their eyes. Maybe they don't know how to become a person, because they still have thinking creatures after all.
"Who is your national teacher?"
Just as duo Guduo walked to the edge of the city wall, she heard Fang Xie ask.
Duo Guduo looked back, remained silent for a while and said: "Her name is sang Sa Sa, a person who is very close to the gods. She said that I am the simplest person she has ever seen and has no evil thoughts. In fact, she is also the simplest person I have ever seen, even living in a group of very dirty people. Her soul can always touch the gods, but she can't leave the world, so she is always so sad."
Fang Xie nodded and didn't care much.
In fact, the National Teachers of the Mongolian Yuan people should be the same people as the Daoist leaders of the great Sui Dynasty. They are the same pieces in the hands of the emperor. They do not have the transcendent status of the Buddha sect. They may be struggling for such a status, or they may never get rid of the shackles of the imperial power.
"If you see her, you know I'm not lying."
Seeing Fang Xie, duo Guduo seemed to be just curious about the national teacher, so he stressed in an emphasis: "no one can understand her sadness, because she is the one who stands in the sky overlooking everyone but is rejected by the gods. Because she is always so kind, and the gods are cold."
Fang Xie was stunned and shook his head with a smile.
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What duo Guduo told Fang Xie was not different from Fang Xie's own speculation. However, he solved several mysteries in his heart that had not been understood, such as why Shiyuan Tianzun left the snow mountain to Yongzhou. The current Ming king is the weakest Ming king in the history of Buddhism. Only when he is free will he move and replace it.
Fang Xie has heard many legends about Da Ziyou, one of which is always inseparable. That is, Da Ziyou was unwilling to leave Da Lun temple in the snow mountain, so that he didn't go out of the temple when Prince Zhong went west with his sword. The stories Fang Xie heard and what duo Guduo said went out. It is said that Da Ziyou had a hand with Prince Zhong and lost the same.
However, according to the calculation, Fang Xie guessed that Da Zi should fight with the loyal prince at the foot of the mountain in a way of being in the temple and reading outside the temple. His strength must be greatly reduced. Losing does not mean that he is really inferior to others. But what is the reason that the first Buddha will never go out of Dalun temple?
Da Zizi is the first person under the Ming king when he is in the big wheel temple.
Now the Ming king is weak, and the Buddha sect, the giant that has controlled the West for thousands of years, has become weak. When the Mongolian Yuan Khan kuketai mengge stood up and pointed a knife at the big snow mountain, the absolute rule of the Buddha sect has actually shaken. Even if mengge failed in the end, Da Zi inherited the Ming king and became the new Supreme, and the control of the Buddha sect was far less than before. Those nobles in the western regions, even those who supported Buddhism in this war, will secretly think that Buddhism is not an unchallengeable existence.
But Fang Xie didn't have time to focus on it, because there was a worry in his heart that was getting stronger and stronger.
He called Chen Xiaoru over and gave a few low orders. Chen Xiaoru's face immediately turned a little white. After Fang Xie's orders, he raised his head and looked at the sky again. He suddenly felt that he was passively accepting all the hardships arranged by the damn day. When can he break free from this bondage?
"Go"
Fang Xie waved his hand: "be careful. Bypass the camp of the Mongolian Yuan people. The flying fish robe you contacted a while ago can be used. In addition, you can directly call the flying fish robe from the southwest. This matter must be checked out. If it is really as I expected, come back as soon as possible..."
"Subordinates understand!"
Chen Xiaoru's face was very ugly and seemed to have pain in his heart.
"My subordinates will come back!"
He said with emphasis.
Fang Xie smiled and patted him on the shoulder. "I never doubted that."
Chen Xiaoru nodded heavily, then turned and left.
It was the darkest time, but it was the precursor of dawn. Fang Xie sat down on the stone wall, stroked the Chaolu knife around him, and looked up at the sky. The sinking fan, which had been in the dark, came slowly and sat down next to him. He didn't care about the dust on the ground at all.
She is the kind of woman who is spotless in the eyes of others even if her clothes are stained with soil.
"You liked to look up at the sky when you were a child. In fact, I always wanted to ask you why you look so focused every time, and even seem to communicate with the sky."
Fang Xie took his eyes back from the sky, smiled and shook his head: "just think about the habit of things."
Since he arrived in this world, because he was at a loss, he often stared at the sky suspiciously, as if to seek the answer. Now he has really formed a habit.
"When you smile, your eyebrows don't stretch out, which shows that you are worried."
"Well"
Fang Xie did not deny it.
"What are you worried about?"
Asked the sinking fan.
"I'm thinking that sometimes I think too much of human nature. I think people are called people because they can't do something. But now I suddenly find that people are called people because they can do everything. If something I'm worried about really happens, I don't know whether I should be glad I didn't invest too much from the beginning or not I am sad that I have invested so much. "
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Jinyang City
Outside the city is the camp of hundreds of thousands of imperial army. It looks like countless grave bags in the night. From a distance, the torches in the hands of those patrol soldiers looked like ghost fires floating in the cemetery. The camp was quiet, and the soldiers went to bed early to recover. Jinyang city is the last fortress of the rebels. As long as we break here again, the rebellion of the Li family can be declared over.
As for Meng Wansui and Yin Baoshan, the Emperor didn't pay attention at all.
It is said that after Li Yuanshan's defeat and death, the army around Li Xiaoche escaped many people. Li Xiaoche sent people one after another to gather up the defeated soldiers, but those who came to eat had no loyalty. Long live Meng and Yan Baoshan were the same. After Yan Baoshan was defeated in the south of Mangdang Mountain, there were more than 100000 people and horses. But after Li Yuanshan died, most of his men fled overnight. Now there are thirty or forty thousand people hiding in the mountains.
Long live Meng was first set aside by Fang Xie and lost a large number of grain, grass and baggage. Originally, he was the most complete rebel general. When Li Yuanshan was defeated, there were more than 200000 people, but the same fate happened to him. Those people who were captured by the strong knew that the imperial court had won a great victory. Who dared to continue to be thieves?
More than 200000 people and horses ran 80% in less than half a month, and they couldn't stop them.
So the emperor did not worry about these things at all, and focused on besieging Jinyang city. It seems that everything is moving in a good direction, at least... In his favor.
Long live Meng and Yan Baoshan are just grasshoppers after autumn, so they don't worry. No matter how strong Jinyang city is, it will be broken sooner or later. Kuo Ketai menglie's army was dragged by Fang Xie in langrushan Canyon and had no time to pay attention to the imperial court.
Most importantly, Luo Yao's plan was also disturbed by his moves.
The guards in Jiangnan have blocked the waterway. It is not easy for the troops in Yongzhou to cross the river. Luo Yao was defeated in the northwest and was seriously injured. He returned to Huangyang road to have a rest. For a while, he would not cross Luoshui again. After all, he was afraid of the Navy.
So the emperor was in a good mood these days, very good, especially good.
The night was deep, but the Emperor didn't seem to be sleepy. Su Buwei moved a recliner and put it outside the tent. He looked up at the sky and smiled all the time.
He didn't know that a young general was looking up at the sky on the stone wall of langrushan thousands of miles away.